Microsoft Corp. has chosen Swiss GPS chip maker u-blox Holding AG's u-blox 5 chipset for a USB GPS receiver.
Aug 28, 2008
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TomTom has rolled out its version of the connected portable navigation device (PND) in Europe, the TomTom GO x40 Live series, featuring its High Definition Traffic service, fuel prices, safety alerts, and local search via Google.
Digital map provider Navteq says it is teaming up with makers of interoperable social-mapping app Loopt to bring the app to more consumers, the companies announced.
In an increasingly commoditized portable navigation device market, it seems that traffic data is the new product differentiator.
Automobile travel service AAA has updated its Networks In Motion-based wireless navigation program, AAA Mobile, adding features including fuel prices, live traffic alerts, weather forecasts, and friend-finder capability.
Garmin has updated its premium 7x5 series and its entry-level 2x5 series N?vi portable navigation devices (PNDs), offering lifetime subscriptions to the Navteq Traffic data service included in the purchase price.
Swedish location-based services and mobile navigation provider Wayfinder Systems reported that its net sales jumped 105 percent to $4.54 million, or 29 million Swedish krona (SEK), for the first six months of 2008.
Northern Europe's GeoSentric Oyj, providers of mobile social networking platform GyPSii, is optimizing the software for Moblin-based mobile Internet devices based on the Intel Atom processor Z5XX series.
Clear Channel Radio?s Total Traffic Network has expanded its market for delivery of real-time traffic data over Radio Data System Traffic Message Channel (RDS-TMC) service for navigation-equipped vehicles and devices to 95 in North America.
